True LoveWritten by Joyce C. Lock
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even publicans same? And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in synagogues and in corners of streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate one, and love other; or else he will hold to one, and despise other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Thou shalt love Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is first commandment. And to love him with all heart, and with all understanding, and with all soul, and with all strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another; If ye love me, keep my commandments. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. As Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled law. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to flesh, but by love serve one another. For all law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But fruit of Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. According as he hath chosen us in him before foundation of world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, And to know love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all fulness of God. But speaking truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is head, even Christ: From whom whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to effectual working in measure of every part, maketh increase of body unto edifying of itself in love. And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having same love, being of one accord, of one mind. That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of full assurance of understanding, to acknowledgement of mystery of God, and of Father, and of Christ. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to saints, and do minister.
| | In His ImageWritten by Joyce C. Lock
Male and Female ~ Created Equal And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over fish of sea, and over fowl of air, and over cattle, and over all earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon earth. So God created man in his own image, in image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass glory of Lord, are changed into same image from glory to glory, even as by Spirit of Lord. That ye might walk worthy of Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; Giving thanks unto Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of inheritance of saints in light: Who hath delivered us from power of darkness, and hath translated us into kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even forgiveness of sins. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And have put on new man, which is renewed in knowledge after image of him that created him. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::»:§«»§«»§«»§«»§:«::::::::::::::::::::::::::: So I returned, and considered all oppressions that are done under sun: and behold tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
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